For a variety of reasons, I'll be more or less away from email for the next five weeks. I'll be using Mikael Hansen's free AutoShare to provide automated vacation mail replies, and although I will read everything I receive during this time, I may not be able to reply. Please send TidBITS-related mail to <editors@tidbits.com> where Geoff Duncan and Jeff Carlson can handle it. Thanks! [ACE]

Speed Doubler 8.1 Coming in March -- Connectix has posted a Speed Doubler 8.1 FAQ that explains why Speed Doubler 8.0 and 8.0.1 don't work with Mac OS 8.1 and claims that a free update will be available in March. In short, the differences between Mac OS 8.0 and 8.1 are sufficiently great that Connectix designed Speed Doubler to disable any of its components that could cause conflicts under Mac OS 8.1. [ACE]